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Peck’s Compendium of Fun

by George W. Peck

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  1. 1Editor of “Peck’s Sun” Milwaukee
  2. 2The New Coal Stove
  3. 3Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa
  4. 4Three Inches of Leg
  5. 5More Dangerous Than Kerosene
  6. 6Ten Days in Love
  7. 7Boys Will Be Boys
  8. 8Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa
  9. 9A Loan Exhibition
  10. 10The Wicked Mon Kee
  11. 11Unscrewing the Top of a Fruit Jar
  12. 12He Wouldn’t Have His Father Called Names
  13. 13Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa
  14. 14Give Us War!
  15. 15The Fire New Year’s Day
  16. 16Southern “Honaw”
  17. 17Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa
  18. 18A Musical Critique
  19. 19A Dead Sure Thing
  20. 20Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa
  21. 21Mrs. Langtry
  22. 22A Peck at the Cheese
  23. 23Selling Clams
  24. 24Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa
  25. 25Trying to Save Two Shillings
  26. 26How to Reach Young Men
  27. 27Crushing Nihilism
  28. 28Woman-Dozing a Democrat
  29. 29The Wrong Corpse
  30. 30The Day We Reached Canada
  31. 31A Lively Train Load
  32. 32Cats on the Fence
  33. 33How Sharper Than a Hound’s Tooth
  34. 34A Safe Investment
  35. 35A Fashion Item
  36. 36A Lecturer Should Know What He Talks About
  37. 37Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa
  38. 38What the Democrats Will Do
  39. 39A Sewing Machine Given to the Boss Girl
  40. 40She Was No Gentleman
  41. 41Joke on the Hat
  42. 42The Thirsty Gopher
  43. 43Colored Concert Troupes
  44. 44Mattie Mashes Minnesota
  45. 45Why the Fever Didn’t Spread
  46. 46Too Particular by Half
  47. 47The Way to Name Children
  48. 48An Editor Burglarized
  49. 49Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa
  50. 50Col. Ingersoll Praying
  51. 51How to Invest a Thousand Dollars
  52. 52Boys and Circuses
  53. 53The Waters of La Crosse
  54. 54Sardineindianapolis
  55. 55Insecure Abodes
  56. 56The Knight and the Bridal Chamber
  57. 57Seven Year Old Horses
  58. 58Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa
  59. 59The Way Women Boss a Pillow
  60. 60Hunting Dogs
  61. 61Enterprising Chicago!
  62. 62A Mad Minister
  63. 63Anna Dickinson as Mazeppa!
  64. 64Good Templars on Ice
  65. 65Bounced From Church for Dancing
  66. 66Frozen Ears
  67. 67Hard on Fond du Lac
  68. 68Those Bold Bad Drummers
  69. 69Anna Dickinson
  70. 70Expedition in Search of a Doughnut
  71. 71Take Your Latin Straight
  72. 72Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa
  73. 73Sure of Heaven
  74. 74The Naughty but Nice Church Choir
  75. 75Supreme Court Judges and U.S. Senators
  76. 76Our Christian Neighbors Have Gone
  77. 77Buttermilk Bibbers
  78. 78Fishing for Pieces of Women
  79. 79Nearly Broke Up the Ball
  80. 80Summer Resorting
  81. 81Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa
  82. 82Gathered Waists!
  83. 83Church Keno
  84. 84The Old Sweet Songs
  85. 85Failure of a Solid Institution
  86. 86Registry of Electors
  87. 87About Hell
  88. 88Preparing for War
  89. 89A Tony Slaughter House
  90. 90An Arm That Is Not Reliable
  91. 91The Boy and the Goat
  92. 92Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa
  93. 93Spurious Tripe
  94. 94“Cash”
  95. 95To What Vile Uses May We Come
  96. 96The Advent Preacher and the Balloon
  97. 97Mr. Peck’s Sunday Lecture
  98. 98Religion and Fish
  99. 99The Political Outlook
  100. 100Rope Ladders
  101. 101A Doctor of Laws
  102. 102Comforting Compensations
  103. 103Lay Up Apples in Heaven
  104. 104One of Beecher’s Converts
  105. 105Buying a Stone Crusher
  106. 106Merrie Christmas
  107. 107The Difference in Horses
  108. 108Base Ingratitude
  109. 109The Difference
  110. 110Those Step Ladders!
  111. 111Wonders of the Stage
  112. 112How Farmers May Get Rich
  113. 113A Case of Paralysis
  114. 114We Will Celebrate
  115. 115Dogs and Human Beings!
  116. 116An Odorous Bohemian
  117. 117Tragedy on the Stage
  118. 118Granite Head Cheese
  119. 119Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa
  120. 120A Good Land Enough
  121. 121The Woodcock
  122. 122A Bald-headed Man Most Crazy
  123. 123Convenient Currency
  124. 124The Gospel Car
  125. 125Banks and Banking
  126. 126Large Mouths Abe Fashionable
  127. 127Internal Improvements
  128. 128Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa
  129. 129Christmas Trees
  130. 130The Bob-Tailed Badger
  131. 131Terror in Church
  132. 132Fish Hatching in Wisconsin
  133. 133Trains Without Conductors
  134. 134Raising Elephants
  135. 135The Power of Eloquence
  136. 136A Trying Situation
  137. 137The Giddy Girls Quarrel
  138. 138The Universal Object — The Mistake About It
  139. 139A New Sparking Scheme
  140. 140Effects of Mineral Water
  141. 141What the Country Needs
  142. 142The Man From Dubuque
  143. 143A Plea for the Bull Head
  144. 144Why Not Raise Wolves?
  145. 145The Sudden Fire-Works at Racine
  146. 146La Crosse Nebecudnezzer Water
  147. 147The Infidel and His Silver Mine
  148. 148The Legend of the Lake
  149. 149Geological Survey
  150. 150Fooling With the Bible
  151. 151A Black Bear at Onalaska
  152. 152Another Dead Failure
  153. 153The Glorious Fourth of July
  154. 154The Uses of the Paper Bag
  155. 155The Universalist Bath
  156. 156Killing Big Game
  157. 157The Mule Not the Eagle
  158. 158Our Blue-Coated Dog Poisoners
  159. 159A Hot Box at a Picnic
  160. 160Camp Meetings in the Dark of the Moon
  161. 161Palace Cattle Cars
  162. 162George Washington
  163. 163Broke Up a Prayer Meeting
  164. 164The Dog Law
  165. 165Lunch on the Cars

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